skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gotta say this subthread is weird, our society has pretty much decided to evaluate such issues as safety, worker happiness, gender equality and so forth on the basis of statistics, and all these people here are just saying no, it doesn't matter that statistically New York is safer without providing any argument why the statistics are wrong (there are a couple people who say things like the population size skews statistics but that's like the premise of an argument, not an actual argument), according to these folks it just is the case that New York is much less safe and that's it buddy!

I would expect to see a mathematical argument as to why the statistics are wrong, size of population skews the statistics, cool. How does that work and why has it made New York seem safer when you contend it isn't!?

There are different kinds of crime than murder - ok, show the stats as to why people suffer more from other crime in New York than the rest of the country!

You're more likely to see a crime in New York than in other places with more crime because there are more people, ok sounds like a cool statistical "paradox", show your work. This is HN and all that stuff!

I mean it is just a weird little discussion here, reminds me of twitter, although with more text and admittedly more grammatical correctness.
Yep, I basically stopped going to one dentist when something felt wrong decades ago when he said it was a cavity to be drilled; second opinion said it was definitely not (I didn’t tell him this was a second opinion). Since then I always get 2 or 3 opinions for me and my family if any of us go (definitely not every 6 months); none of us has any cavities or anything else wrong with us: we do brush and floss and none of us eats particular bad food for oral health.

I am quite sure there are a very large amount of people who had cavities drilled that never had to be.
What do you conclude from that? Maybe the other crime is even lower.
Can't recommend listening to the people being interviewed in [2] enough
Meanwhile going unacknowledged is Lee's defense of Richmond & Petersburg where he successfully innovated trench warfare 50 years before WW1, where we won't talk about the Battle of the Crater.

But hating on Lee is still one of the strongest virtue signals we have. So you'll continue going on about Pickett's charge, Lee 'hagiography' and the Lost Cause mythos.
This is where you unconventionally put an LCD screen where a window should be, and put in HVAC systems to blow fresh air.
> And, because of zoning reforms, no new building would be allowed to overwhelm a Manhattan street the way the hulking towers of the postwar period did. A developer who constructed a tower the same height as 55 Broad would likely have to sacrifice twenty per cent of the rentable space.
You don't need to gather your own. Researchers and journalists do it, and you can find them pretty easily ...
I wouldn't use the term "garbage prose", but I do agree that many books from the literary canon aren't the greatest choice to assign to kids.

Steinbeck and Faulkner come to mind.

I understand that they're important, influential, and well-written. But I just didn't relate to them. There was almost nothing about the main characters' challenges or desires that I could understand.

My son was assigned "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton - he didn't mind reading it, but he said he just didn't really relate to any of the characters. Even though it's set just 50 years ago, the culture it describes bares basically no resemblance to modern-day life for a teenager.
if it’s parent-encumbered, it’s literally been recognized as a novel and advanced innovation, that’s why it’s granted a patent in the first place. Choosing to license vs wait is a business decision but you’re spinning something that’s objectively true into somehow being a “trick”, which is a really common pattern when discussing apple for some reason (“selling or renting first-party tools is a trick”, for example).
On most Linux environments: text you highlight with the mouse (or highlight by double/triple clicking) can be "pasted" by middle-clicking.
> we don’t tax is the use of those things as collateral for loans

So you wanna tax my mortgage?

> Cap wealth at $50m or something.

That just encourages hiding it.
That's a pretty outdated phrase, even in enterprise.
You want to buy a bunch of new equipment to do training? Yeah Mac’s aren’t going to make sense.

You want your developers to be able to do training locally and they already use Macs? Maybe an upgrade would make business sense. Even if you have beefy servers or the cloud for large jobs.
For analytics, I am a fan of type minimalism, like in SAS. You only really need to distinguish numbers and strings (each with missing value), and table as an overarching structure. They do everything else with input and output "formats". Perhaps you want to throw in enumerations (and sets of thereof) for a good measure.

That being said, typing is hard. There are many ways to consider what is a type, and I don't see a clear physical/logical distinction. Whether type should determine storage method is one thing. Another consideration is whether type is intrinsic to the value (e.g. string in UTF-8, float64, etc.) or is extrinsic (e.g. length, weight, area and so on). This is somewhat based on whether the type is implied by the operations used on the value (for example, you can subtract numbers but not strings).

Edit: Also, if you're gonna treat time as a separate type, why not also have 2D and 3D coordinates as its own type? It's just hard to make an ultimate standard.
I wish someone come and save my plant
PDF documents support launching external programs.

I wouldn't want my email client to support arbitrary PDF features, either.
But that's been true for generations. It wouldn't explain some perceived surge now.

What does explain it is what explains many other things that don't match facts, about the economy, vaccines, climate change, election legitimacy, Obama's birthplace, etc. Whatever the conservative message machine focuses on, generally a large portion of the population believes.
Am I the only one here to have actually heard the Wall of Sound? I attended two of the 1974 concerts where it was used, at UCSB in the spring and at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer. I was seventeen. I had also attended two shows at Winterland in February, where apparently some the components of the Wall of Sound were used before the full system was rolled out the following month.

One should not, of course, trust fifty-year-old memories, especially about something so subjective as sound quality. But, for what it’s worth, my recollection of the Hollywood Bowl in particular is very positive—clear, solid sound with distinct separation of the instruments, while not so loud that my ears rang afterwards (as they did after other rock concerts I attended in those days, until I started wearing earplugs to protect my hearing).
US Power and Fossil Gas Prices Plummet to Below Zero
What if there was some place with no crime? No wait, then they would discourage it because there would be no need to fund the police and what the hell does the Mayor do all day.
I think he has different critera on what bothers him, thats okay though isn't it. I get a little annoyed at anything where I have to use a touchpad, not enough to rant about it, but it definitely increases friction (haha) in my thought process.
I don't mean this in the usual snarky way, but read the OP. It goes into detail with a developer about these issues.
It’s funny how people always try to conceptualize and talk about dateability when attraction is both subconscious and extremely ancient. The stuff we come up with is things that “make sense” yet there are exceptions all the time everywhere.
Trivially copyable and destructible means that they are plain-old data, with no allocations, associated resources or any other side-effects.
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I knew most planes have quite reasonable glide distances and I knew that large commercial airliners were no exception. But from a relative standpoint (GA vs CA) this seemed suspect at first. Intuitively to me the enormous mass differences would make up for the wing surface area differences and the advantage would be to much smaller / lighter planes. On further reflection makes a lot of sense. Fuel is one of the highest costs of commercial airlines. Of course they are going to be hyper-optimizing for this where they can. A 747 being fuel efficient is far more important to bottom lines than a tiny Cessna being fuel efficient and with the relative costs of these aircraft, Boeing can invest far more in research to reduce drag and optimize lift. Aircraft glide ratios certainly seem to confirm this.
Kafka storage architecture evolution in one image
It removes the property key. It does not remove the index. You can see the distinction in the iterator produced by the array prototype’s keys method which, per ECMAScript spec chapter 23, yields the array’s indexes. And they are, in fact, determined by the array’s length.

You can delete every property corresponding to an array’s indexes, and you’ll get the same result.
Bluesky CEO here. We were founded to build a protocol for Twitter, and likely would have died as a project within Twitter had I not spent half of 2021 negotiating for our independence. In 2022, I got funding and began building an independent protocol team that was still consulting with Twitter on how they might integrate an open protocol.

Elon buying Twitter was the factor that changed our plans and led us to build an app, as it became clear a path to adoption within Twitter would never pan out. We were not set up as a product team given the legacy of our origins, but did the best we could last spring, shipping an app to hundreds of thousands of users with just one app dev, pfraze. OpenAI has been around for nine years, and while what they've done is truly impressive, launching projects with a fully-staffed engineering team is very different from building a team as you grow a userbase.

Hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to market timing, but our goal from the start has been to deliver a decentralized social experience with good UX, and deliver on the previously theoretical concepts of algorithmic choice and community moderation in a global public square. Because of this, our product focus has been driven by showing what's possible on an open protocol, and only after doing things like custom feeds and third-party labelers have we circled back on some more basic features users have been requesting like DMs and video. We still believe decentralization, and the innovation it enables for social, has high potential, and are always looking at how we can better surface it in the app.
> Residents would be provided with compact HVAC units under certain windows, as in a motel.

Sounds like https://vxtwitter.com/GoodGuyGuaranty/status/175753305627604...
Seems like that’s how things go with enterprise software - who cares if the users like it if you have a captive audience?

But I want this feature and I’ll look for software that has it.
misdemeanors are more likely to be thrown out or never taken to court because of court/jail overcrowding. Felonies are likely to get prosecuted if you have a culprit. Misdemeanors... end up getting asked is this trip really necessary?
I agree with the sentiment, but this one is just shitty. Switch out the stars for pluses and it’d be a lot better
what amazing laptop must an employer give you to not be summarily rejected?
> Not really - in software people leave a bigger and more easily trackable track record than any other engineering field. From previous work projects/experience to open source projects/experience, from personal projects to the communities a person belongs to.

That only apply to software people who either (a) are getting paid to work on open source or (b) have enough spare time to work on open source as a hobby after hours. Option (b), in particular, usually implies having no children or other familial responsibilities.
"All objects of the same(-sized) type" is typically a constraint of bitmap allocators, not arena allocators.
You don't say if your looking for practical or general knowledge. If the former, there's obviously a slant, but there's a huge amount of free educational material (text and video) for the Cisco CCNA exam that starts out with basic networking and builds from there.

The CompTIA stuff is more general but does a good job.

We don't really spend a lot of time on the OSI model these days.
Blame? Simply saying downloading 2gb isn’t the power consumption hit you seem to think it is.

Not much of a gamer anyway, just an observation when I tried a couple apparently dodgy games.

Not sure why your reply wasn’t related to your original comment. Felt rather knee-jerk reactionary to me instead. Oh well.
As an alternative perspective, I am glad that my middle and high school curriculum included several works of Shakespeare, especially Macbeth and Hamlet, and several 19th century classics.

They really do require time, they’re hard to make time for, and while reading them wasn’t exactly fun, I’m glad that I did it. Many of the themes are timeless, the prose is elegant if difficult, and there are cultural references to these works everywhere.

They form a big part of the English speaking world’s cultural history. I think it’s worthwhile for children to be exposed to that history.

And if not then, when? I couldn’t make myself do the work now; I’m too busy and tired to read anything but easy/fun fiction after work. And I’m not sure I would have had the focus then if it hadn’t been assigned. Sometimes education isn’t fun or easy. That doesn’t make it less valuable.
> The upside is that web components will last longer than react components.

How much are you betting? React components have been around longer and are more widely established, so personally I'd expect them to last longer.
If you take your investor's money and bet it on black at a roulette table and win, you'll still go to jail.
The management class has grown fat in the US. Layoffs at my company haven’t impacted management AT ALL.
Good insights. However, I think architectures like shared storage should also include other variants, and it would be better to compare them together. For example, models that write directly to S3, like the Confluent Freight cluster.
Thanks! Ha ha :) But heck I'm probably wrong about that, just saw this great Kurzgesagt video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBPwu2uS-w

I do wanna try Zyn tho. I think nicotine is worth exploring a little bit, 100%
I agree. Apple has been on this path for a while, the first processor with a Neural Engine was the A11 in 2017 or so. The path didn’t appear to change at all.

The big differences today that stood out to me were adopting AI as a term (they used machine learning before) and repeating the term AI everywhere they could shove it in since that’s obviously what the street wants to hear.

That’s all that was different. And I’m not surprised they emphasized it given all the weird “Apple is behind on AI“ articles that have been going around.
I mostly agree.

> In general people in the ecosystem of peer reviewed journals is not looking for more work. By design it is not inclusive of lay people.

I prefer to say that whay people that publish in peer review journals have a different definition of what is "interesting". Is this benchmark "interesting" for a peer review journal? Is this benchmark "interesting" for lay people? Only God knows which definition of "interesting" is the correct one.

> From a practical standpoint the fastest way to get reliable access to the peer reviewed ecosystem is probably a graduate degree (PhD preferred).

A PhD is not good enough (or necesary). It must be someone that is already publishing if peer review journals. It's important to choose a journal has a definition of "interesting" that include this benchmark, and know all the nasty internal details like how to discuss with the editors and reviewers, and dot all the i and cross all the t. The style is weird, usualy very short, too short, and there are a few expected parts, and ...

Sometimes the conferences have a less restrictive criteria to present works, and sometimes the work get published with light peer review, and the OP may connect with someone reseraching in the topic.

Also, it's important to know that there are predatory journals that will publish your work for money, but they publish all kind of crap, so nobody cares about them.

joke: For $1000 I'll pubhlish the work in my "peer review journal" (should I at leat make a webpage?), for $2000 the reviewer will be a real person instead of a sock puppet.
> I'm going to sue you for denying service arbitrarily and win

Which country are you claiming this entirely implausible legal scenario would work in?
Unfortunately the hit targets are stacked poorly. If I mouse in from the top right the number turns red, otherwise the text turns red.
Bluesky is federated through the AT Protocol, and a bridge between Bluesky and Mastodon started running recently. https://fed.brid.gy/

I've seen some Nostr users bridged as well
"2001: A Space Odyssey" Directed by George Lucas? (No AI)
I don't get if the conflict was finished a year ago it doesn't count anymore? We're comparing only to on-going conflicts? Right. Makes total sense. Well I assume the current Gaza war will be over soon - in that case we can all just forget about it (?).
The vast majority of programming languages would be terrible for production code in a real business setting. We share and discuss them here not because we're looking for something to replace the big few languages at work but because the niche and obscure ones often explore very interesting ideas.
Yes, that’s what the judge said.

But too many people compared SBF to Bernie Madoff, and the more we learn about the FTX case, the less the comparison makes sense.
Petty clarification: single facts can't be copyrighted, but collections of facts (e.g. sports scores) can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation
It helps with convergence of iOS and macOS, supporting both Macbook keyboard (laptop) and detached slate (mobile) form factors.

There are professionals who operate in space-constrained physical environments, e.g. superthin iPad + rugged case with other electronics can still be close to laptop form factor.

On a related note, there are 90/180 degree USB-C M/M and M/F 40Gbps adapters.
"In fact, this chart is misleading, because almost none of the “Koreans” in Japan — the orange line on the graph — are actually Korean. They are what’s commonly known as zainichi — people of Korean descent, who were born in Japan and usually only speak Japanese, but who have Korean passports, because Japan does not have birthright citizenship."

I venture to say that many if not most of the people on the chart were Japanese-born and raised.

But they are NOT Japanese. That's almost a textbook case of Xenophobia.

That's just me speaking as a Gaijin, of course.
"silicon valley people would benefit from talking to people who build chips", that's a good one!
Right. The difference is that Apple has a ton of edge capacity, they’ve been building it for a long time.

Google and Samsung have been building it too, at different speeds.

Intel and AMD seem further behind (at the moment) unless the user has a strong GPU, which is especially uncommon on the most popular kind of computer: laptops.

And if you’re not one of those four companies… you probably don’t have much capable consumer edge hardware.
runarberg is not interested in getting to some commonly understood truth, he's only interested in spreading his propaganda. If you examine your conversation with him through this lens, it makes perfect sense. He continues to repeat lies that you've pointed out don't make any sense. He makes sure to repeat his unfounded claim that "They are definitely committing genocide" as he does in nearly every comment he's made in the last 2 weeks, regardless of how wrong he's shown to be. If you start to back him into a corner, he's begin to deny very obvious truths like Jewish people have a historical connection to that area and continues to claim, without any basis that he's simply repeating what the ICJ has said, when the president of the council very clearly said the opposite.
I guess I don’t quite get it. It’s not a ton of work for me to manage things with git, symlinks, and a makefile. Clearly chezmoi adds some polish and maybe additional features, but I don’t see how that outweighs learning a custom tool for this one thing.
> Execution order between cells is not guaranteed to be stable and may differ for different versions of Python.
If someone were to restore the universe from a faulty backup, would we even know there was anything missing? Assuming the consistency checks passed.
It is definitely increasing mine. It’s almost a mindreader.

Opus seems better at code though so I am mixing them ; copilot for continues and Opus for big/new slabs.

From the article: unpredictable is correct but with a retry or two that is usually fixed. Sometimes of course it just cannot do it.

It’s slow; that’s true but a matter of time; if you see things like Groq and the others that are very fast, you see the near future will be faster than you can read, so you can create multiple or even self-fixes by the time you are even noticed it did anything.
The problem is it’s hard to get anything other than anecdata when discussing things that don’t come into macro statistics. I live in a large Democrat-dominated city, I have very deep connections and roots all around, and casual mentions of petty crime are common. I have observed a lot of shoplifting and I’m only in retail stores so often. There is certainly an attitude that some types of crime just occur and no one will stop it.

> In its annual survey, BJS asks crime victims whether they reported their crime to police. It found that in 2022, only 41.5% of violent crimes and 31.8% of household property crimes were reported to authorities. BJS notes that there are many reasons why crime might not be reported, including fear of reprisal or of “getting the offender in trouble,” a feeling that police “would not or could not do anything to help,” or a belief that the crime is “a personal issue or too trivial to report.”

> Most of the crimes that are reported to police, meanwhile, are not solved, at least based on an FBI measure known as the clearance rate. That’s the share of cases each year that are closed, or “cleared,” through the arrest, charging and referral of a suspect for prosecution, or due to “exceptional” circumstances such as the death of a suspect or a victim’s refusal to cooperate with a prosecution. In 2022, police nationwide cleared 36.7% of violent crimes that were reported to them and 12.1% of the property crimes that came to their attention.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
I'm all for running as much on the edge as possible, but we're not even close to being able to do real-time inference on Frontier models on Macs or iPads, and that's just for vanilla LLM chatbots. Low-precision Llama 3-8b is awesome, but it isn't a Claude 3 replacer, totally drains my battery, and is slow (M1 Max).

Multimodal agent setups are going to be data center/home-lab only for at least the next five years.

Apple isn't about to put 80GB on VRAM in an iPad for about 15 reasons.
> M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today.

I didn't even realize there is other PC-level hardware with AI-specific compute. What's the AMD and Intel equivalent of Neural Engine? (not that it matters since it seems the GPU where most of the AI workload is handled anyway)
Doesn’t it just refer to the end user device as opposed to a server somewhere or a middle box?